The young Alwan has three novels to his name: Saqf Elkefaya, Sophia, and Touq Altahara.

Hammad says the most recent of Alwan’s novels, Statistics, predicts his family members” deaths (statistically) and is obsessed with inheritance and deviation from social tradition. She asked about his own deviations from social tradition:

I will have to say that the way I pursue my intellectual life is somehow inconsistent with my family tradition. I grew up in a conservative house that has become increasingly religious over time. Therefore, I had to attune culturally sensitive social skills to preserve my freedom of thought and expression without fracturing familial bonds. Such struggles are very common in Saudi Arabia at its current transitional period, or milestone. Those societal shifts are first observed by writers and later experienced by the wider society.